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    "id": 958230,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Article 113(2) of the Constitution and Standing Order No.150, this House adopts the Report of the Mediation Committee on the Division of Revenue (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.59 of 2019), laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 11th September 2019, and approves the mediated version of the Division of Revenue (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.59 of 2019). The mediated version of the Division of Revenue (No.2) Bill and the Report that I tabled yesterday detail what the Committee of 18 - nine Members from this House and nine from the Senate - settled on. Members will appreciate that this has been a very long period of mediation from the first Division of Revenue Bill, whose mediation process collapsed before we embarked on a new mediation process following the re-publication of the second Division of Revenue Bill with an increment from the initial Kshs310 billion to a new figure of Kshs316.5 billion. The figure of Kshs316.5 billion is just the shareable revenue between the two levels of government; the national and the county governments. It does not constitute all the amounts that are to go to our county governments. If Members would peruse through the Bill, even for the benefit of the entire country, in total, besides Kshs316.5 billion that is going to be the county equitable share, we have conditional grants and other conditional allocations that constitute a total figure of Kshs378,485,091,894. This includes the urban support programme for water and sanitation development (WSDP). It also includes the Kshs6.2 billion that had earlier on been removed, in the earlier Bill that had gone to the Senate. It had been removed by the Senators. Allow me to take this opportunity to thank the Senators for having taken a position of leadership and patriotism in accepting to agree to the shareable share of Kshs316.5 billion. As I said in the Mediation Committee, it was not a process where we were to flex muscles and get winners or losers. We are all winners. The Kenyan nation, our county governments and the devolved system of governance, is a winner in this. I take this opportunity to, in a very special way, thank Members of the Committee led by Senator, the Chair of the Budget and Finance The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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